1st heart sound:
Caused by tricuspid & bicuspid valves (AV valve closure)
2nd heart sound
Caused by closure of pulmonary and aortic valves (semilunar valves)
3rd heart sound
4th heart sound:
- Heard in people w/ heart disease or MI
Projection Areas of Valve Sound:
Mapping out the Heart:
-Superior border:
– a line connecting the inferior margin of the 2nd left costal cartilage and superior margin of 3rd right costal cartilage
Nerve Supply of the Heart
Cardiac Plexus of Nerves Contain:
Cardiac Conduction System:
SA node:
SA node:
AV node:
Purkinje fibers
-Ends in sub-endocardium
FUN FACTS CLINICALLY
“SKELETON OF THE HEART”
Composed of fibrous or fibrocartilaginous tissue
-Forms the central support of the heart
Venus Drainage:
Coronary Sinus:
Right Coronary Artery:
RA & RV
Circumflex-
LA and LV
Pericardium:
Fibrous and serous pericardium
Fibrous pericardium: outer tough fibrous layer made up of dense irregular CT
o Serous pericardium: parietal layer and visceral layer (epicardium)
Pericarditis:
inflammation of the pericardium; causes increased secretion of serous fluid-surface becomes rough
Pericardial effusion:
increased secretion of fluid-due to infection
Cardiac tamponade
blood coming out to sac but still in pericardium-starts to compress the heart and therefore compression of great vessels especially SVC
Pericardiocentesis:
put needle into pericardium then extract
External Features of the heart:
Coronary arteries and branches
- LCA: anterior interventricular and circumflex arteries
Coronary sinus and cardiac veins